It's YET ANOTHER stuck in an MMORPG anime

>It's YET ANOTHER stuck in an MMORPG anime
I fucking love this shit

It's the whole genre actually done right.

This and Log Horizon are the two ways to do this thing correctly.
Either faithfully recreate a believable MMORPG setting and dig deep into mechanics and strategy, or do a comedic deconstruction of the entire concept.

Based on the pause scene in the first episode, is Kazuma actually in a world, or is he just playing a super "realistic" style video game? Did he even die in the first place, or was it all part of a game?

IS KAZUMA ACTUALLY THE PROTAGONIST OF A VIDEO GAME AND WE'RE JUST WATCHING SOMEONE PLAY THROUGH HIS GAME?
I can't be the first who thought of this.

That pause scene was just a joke.

But...
How do we know that?

>MMORPG
But its not you retard

It basically is, they level up, allocate skill points, are restricted by class etc.

>It's the whole genre
>genre
It's a setting you fucking retard, not a genre.

>I can't be the first who thought of this.
You're not. And if there's someone whom we're watching the playthrough of a game where he's a character in it, it's Subaru from Re:Zero. The whole 'saving loading' thing fits perfectly into that idea.

>Either faithfully recreate a believable MMORPG setting and dig deep into mechanics and strategy, or do a comedic deconstruction of the entire concept.
The third alternative is to have it simply be an unknown fantasy setting. It's okay to leave some things unexplained, and that's especially true if you want the story to be one that puts the focus on development of the characters.

>It's the whole genre actually done right.

Not really, parody doesn't count as the genre done right.

It is if the entire genre is a joke.

>It's a setting you fucking retard, not a genre.

It's perfectly reasonable to call it a genre (though it might still be more appropriate to consider it a sub-genre of sci-fi/fantasy.)

>[Let's play KonoSuba part 14]
>Top o' the mornin' to you, laddies! My name is Kazuma and welcome back to KonoSuba!
>When we left off last time we were in this brothel... thing
>HOLY SHIT, look at those Succuboobs!
>Well, I'd put my extra EXP in your inventory, namsayin'? *winks at audience*
>What the FUCK? How am I supposed to solve this puzzle?
>Will we ever see Darkness naked?
>Thank you for watching! Don't forget to like, comment and subscribe!
>[Flashy outtro]

>tfw no more .Hack// anime

fucking isekaiags, they killed the genre.

Basicly

Or dear God no.

>It's perfectly reasonable to call it a genre
It's honestly not, and the reason it isn't is because if you think of it as a genre then you'll be slapping the same label on shows like KonoSuba and Re:Zero even though one is a light-hearted ecchi harem comedy and the other is a dark psychological seinen thriller.

Call it a setting and people won't be tricked into comparing shows that have nothing in common sans their setting.

I mean, if you want to get down to it, even things like Haibane Renmei and Spirited Away would count as 'trapped in a fantasy world' shows, and once again they have very little in common with each other or any of the other aforementioned shows.

>one is a light-hearted ecchi harem comedy and the other is a dark psychological seinen thriller

Genre usually are wide enough to contain that kind of range. Look at your typical big "genre fiction" categories for American novels: Western, Romance, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Horror, Crime, Christian (which can be any of the others, but written by Christians for Christians. Usually protestants.)

The only real problem with referring to isekai or even just "trapped in an MMO" as a genre isn't that it covers too much, it's that the category covers too little.

>Romance, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Horror
See what I mean? Isekai can be any or all of those. That's because it's not a genre, but a setting.

Contrast with 'high-school anime'. A high school anime could be a SOL, a comedy, an ecchi harem, a battle harem, a romance, a tragedy, it could have fantasy and/or sci-fi elements, and so on. In both cases (isekai, high school) the setting doesn't tell you its genre and at best makes a few potential genres less likely.

That filename is quite rad.

Some spaces or camel case wouldn't have killed him.

this really isnt what I consider hidden

>It basically is, they level up, allocate skill points, are restricted by class etc.

So... Final Fantasy VI is a MMO

You're a fucking idiot.

>being this autitic about tripfags
T R I P G G E R E D

>MMO massively multiplayer online
>Literally just 3 non npc characters

Konosuba is more like trapped in a Jrpg

>autitic

Hide stubs + recursive hiding. It's the only way to filter those tripfags.

>It's YET ANOTHER stuck in an MMORPG anime
>It is actually just a regular transported to a fantasy world

Fuck you niggers.